Snowy owls are fierce Arctic hunters – and their nesting habits are as intense as their hunting style. In this video, we ...

Every three to five years, lemmings have population booms that lead to large numbers of them scurrying across the tundra. In these years, the population increases by about tenfold, Baltensperger said.

There are also a number of animals that call the Arctic tundra home. These include arctic foxes, lemmings, voles, wolves, caribou, arctic hares, polar bears, squirrels, loons, ravens, salmon ...

The southern bog lemming is more closely related to the voles than to the true lemmings that inhabit higher latitudes. Grooved upper incisors and a relatively shorter tail, 17-21 mm (0.75 in), which ...

Other Arctic tundra animals include snowy owls, reindeer, polar bears, white foxes, lemmings, Arctic hares, wolverines, caribou, migrating birds, mosquitoes, and black flies. Animals of the alpine ...

If they detect movement beneath the snow, they wait patiently, cocking their heads back and forth, listening for the lemmings’ squeaks ... blend in with the rocky tundra. An Arctic fox in ...

Once you know to look for them, the tundra is laced through with vole runways. Patel is a field tech with Team Vole, a group of some 20 researchers studying Alaska’s voles and lemmings.

indicated a poor summer on the tundra for lemmings, a primary food source of breeding snowy owls. “Summer 2022 saw very low lemming abundances across most of the Canadian Arctic, the core ...